xterm supports both: 1. xterm -e command with separate arguments 2. xterm -e 'command line'
It appears to do this by first trying: a. execvp(argv[0], argv) then if there is a single argument: b. execl(shell, basename(shell), '-c', argv[0], NULL) else c. execl(shell, basename(shell), NULL) But I think (c) isn't really important. gnome-terminal -e behaves like (b) and gnome-terminal -x behaves like (a). I think that the wrapper should translate -e to -e only where there is exactly one argument following and 'which' cannot find a command by that name; otherwise it should translate it to -x. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
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